Amor Ingeniosus Est 

I was having drinks and a cigar with a friend when he said, “If you’d become a priest, you’d be a bishop by now.”  “And Jesus wept,” I replied.  “No,” he said, “I’m serious. I’ve seen you speak, read your stuff, you’re a natural. People listen to...

Dragonfly

I woke up with a nagging pain in my right arm, which didn’t surprise me since I’d been afflicted with what I figured was a bad case of tendonitis all week. Because I’d rolled onto the offending limb in my sleep, the pain was now acute. Since this syndrome had been...

You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Several months back, I was watching the HBO show White Lotus when one of the characters asked an old Buddhist monk happens to us after death. “When you are born,” the monk said, “You are like a single drop of water, flying upward, separated from the one...